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You can't copyright art style (2016)

https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/you-cant-copyright-style

by lowbloodsugar • 4 years ago

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lowbloodsugar• 4 years ago

An illustrator draws Star Wars in the style of Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes. If a human can distill another artist's style and reproduce it, can an AI?

bediger4000• 4 years ago

... done in Bill Watterson’s inimitable style. Kesinger not only nailed the famed Calvin and Hobbes look, he also nailed Watterson’s voice.

This category of using a trite expression ("inimitable style") and then instantly revealing ignorance of the expression's meaning is really jarring.

The article as a whole is good, even going so far as to note that you really can't say that a specific work does not infringe unless you've had a trial over it. But that weird sentence really bothers me.

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